The vector mode was deprecated in ARMv7-A/VFPv3 and various cpu
implementations do not support it in hardware. Vector mode code will
depending the OS either be emulated in software or result in an illegal
instruction on cpus which does not support it. This was not really
problem in practice since NEON implementations of the same functions are
preferred. It will however become a problem for checkasm which tests
every cpu flag separately.
Since this is a cpu feature newer cpu do not support anymore the
behaviour of this flag differs from the other flags. It can be only
activated by runtime cpu feature selection.
The previous implementation targeted DTS Coherent Acoustics, which only
requires nbits == 4 (fft16()). This case was (and still is) linked directly
rather than being indirected through ff_fft_calc_vfp(), but now the full
range from radix-4 up to radix-65536 is available. This benefits other codecs
such as AAC and AC3.
The implementaion is based upon the C version, with each routine larger than
radix-16 calling a hierarchy of smaller FFT functions, then performing a
post-processing pass. This pass benefits a lot from loop unrolling to
counter the long pipelines in the VFP. A relaxed calling standard also
reduces the overhead of the call hierarchy, and avoiding the excessive
inlining performed by GCC probably helps with I-cache utilisation too.
I benchmarked the result by measuring the number of gperftools samples that
hit anywhere in the AAC decoder (starting from aac_decode_frame()) or
specifically in the FFT routines (fft4() to fft512() and pass()) for the
same sample AAC stream:
Before After
Mean StdDev Mean StdDev Confidence Change
Audio decode 2245.5 53.1 1599.6 43.8 100.0% +40.4%
FFT routines 940.6 22.0 348.1 20.8 100.0% +170.2%
Signed-off-by: Martin Storsjö <martin@martin.st>
Before After
Mean StdDev Mean StdDev Change
This function 2653.0 28.5 1108.8 51.4 +139.3%
Overall 17049.5 408.2 15973.0 223.2 +6.7%
Signed-off-by: Martin Storsjö <martin@martin.st>
Before After
Mean StdDev Mean StdDev Change
This function 9295.0 114.9 4853.2 83.5 +91.5%
Overall 23699.8 397.6 19285.5 292.0 +22.9%
Signed-off-by: Martin Storsjö <martin@martin.st>
This allows masking CPU features with the -cpuflags avconv option
which is useful for testing different optimisations without rebuilding.
Signed-off-by: Mans Rullgard <mans@mansr.com>
Consistently apply this rule: the guard name is obtained from the
filename by stripping the leading "lib", converting '/' and '.' to
'_' and uppercasing the resulting name. Guard names in the root
directory have to be prefixed by "FFMPEG_".
Originally committed as revision 15120 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk
depending on CONFIG_SMALL this can either be compiled to a fully unrolled kernel / rfc reference style md5 routine
or a single loop similar to what mplayer uses
Originally committed as revision 5565 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk
Diego Biurrun
Janne Grunau
Ben Avison
Martin Storsjö
Mans Rullgard
Felipe Contreras
Loren Merritt
Justin Ruggles
Stefano Sabatini
Ivo van Poorten
Michael Niedermayer